Juniper Research predicts that by 2022 more than half the homes in the U.S. will contain smart speakers like today’s popular Amazon Alexa and Google Home, and it’s easy to see why. Providing the answer to any question we can dream up, producing music and other entertainment on demand, handling our online shopping, they are one giant step towards the personal droid assistants we’ve all been craving since meeting C-3PO and R2-D2.
